Discover yourself through selflessness
Volunteering is an awesome way to make a difference in the world, both for the giver and the receiver. In these modern times where there is such an emphasis on materialism, it is easy for people to become selfish. Volunteering is a wonderful cure for this!
If you have volunteered before you will fully understand the feeling it gives.
Volunteering is opening your heart to helping – giving your self, your time and your skills to better someone else’s life. The focus on others can help you discover a deeper, more compassionate part of yourself. It enables you to learn things about your self that you might not come to know otherwise. All seriousness aside, volunteering can be great fun and usually includes a huge range of activities, from educational to recreational. And whilst being rewarding to you, you are also improving the quality of other people’s lives.
A vast range of volunteering in India is aimed at the wellbeing of children and adolescents.
Whilst being at such impressionable and dependent stages in their lives it is important that children have positive influences around them. This is where the volunteers come in. To have people in their lives that want to help them and their situation, expecting nothing in return, gives hope and aim to the person in need. Knowing that someone cares about you and your wellbeing can be one of the most important things in life.
On our ‘Open Your Heart’ tour you’ll be privileged enough to stay at the Shikshan Gram Shelter for Homeless Children. The children at Shikshan Gram are either orphaned or their parents can no longer care for them. The centre is run by two beautiful and caring people, Satish and Yogita (with lots of help from Shazar Robinson from Australia). Their commitment to the organization runs deep, both having grown up in shelters themselves. You only have to step foot inside to feel the love and warmth that emanates in this place.
The positive effects of volunteering cannot be overemphasized. One child, from a Shelter who was sponsored by her volunteer, now aims to become a counselor or doctor so that she can help other people. Just a few years ago she was quiet, withdrawn and suffered from an eating disorder.
Volunteering is an experience like no other.
To give your time, energy and love in such a selfless act can leave you feeling whole, and the benefits to the person you help can be life-changing. So what are you waiting for? Come and ‘Open Your Heart’ with us in India.
Other tours that include school/orphanage visits are – Heart of South India, Transformational Journey of the Tarot, Discover Your Best Self, Northern Exposure and Living the Ayurvedic Way North.
To enquire or book a place call 1300722932 or email info@touchofspirittours.com.au
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Now taking final bookings for Transformational Journey of The Tarot…..a tour wonderful tour in South India that commences 20th October 2013. Enquire now!
See you next week!
